On 2012-11-12 17:00, Adam Harvey wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've written an RFC to cover deprecating ext/mysql in PHP 5.5:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation. While we handled the soft
deprecation in the documentation purely via a straw poll on Internals,
I presume this will end up needing to go to a vote, hence the RFC.
I won't rehash the background overly (there's some more detail in the
RFC), other than to note that we've now had deprecation notices on all
mysql_* functions in the manual for about six months and that the
logical next step is to start generating E_DEPRECATED notices when
users connect via mysql_connect(), mysql_pconnect() or the implicit
ext/mysql connection routines.
While I fully understand the reasons behind this, I still believe this kind of
thing should be done using the documentation only.
Generating 'educational' notices will just annoy the end users and in 99% cases
they can't do a thing about it -
nobody's going to rewrite a large piece of legacy software just to make PHP
happy.
More notices doesn't necessarily mean less people are going to use ext/mysql,
you can't hasten users to move if they don't really want to do it themselves.
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Wbr,
Antony Dovgal
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